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Gold Set Gift Engraved Clip Money Senegal Cufflinks Flag tone My advisor replaced all the occurrences of "increment" with "increase" in one of my papers. Is it true that "increment" can always be replaced with "increase"? If not, please show me some examples.

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People will always ask about "perfect synonyms". And we always have to tell them, there is no such thing. Synonyms only exist in context. Antonyms only exist in context. Hypernyms only exist in context. For the simple reason that all these -nyms are about meaning, and words only have meaning in context. Without context, a word as simple as cat can mean a dozen things; it is not even synonymous with itself. Likewise, man can be the antonym of woman, or the antonym of boy, or the antonym of God, or the antonym of animal — even though a man is an animal and not a plant. –
RegDwigнt♦Nov 29 '12 at 10:12

My advisor replaced all the occurrences of "increment" with "increase" in one of my papers. Is it true that "increment" can always be replaced with "increase"?

No, increment cannot "always" be replaced with increase. However, that doesn't mean that your advisor was wrong: increase is a more "generic" word, and it may indeed have been the more appropriate word in the usages in your paper.

Unfortunately, you haven't taken the time to provide even a single example from your paper, so there's no way for us to tell if these replacements represent improvements. We don't even know if you are talking about a noun or verb usage of these words.

In short, increase can be used as a verb, meaning to go up. The word increase can also be used as a noun, meaning a single instance of making a value higher. So, I could say either of these:

Betty, we are going to increase your pay. (used as a verb)Netty, you are going to receive a pay increase. (used as a noun)

But the word increment would not be appropriate in either of those sentences. The word increment implies one of a series:

Eddy, we are going to increase your salary $2000 per year for the next three years. Each increment will take effect on January 1st.